Meet the 100+ mentors
We match your needs and specific situation with high-profile and experienced life science professionals who can provide strategic guidance, open their network for you, and work with you to accomplish your goals.
The NOME mentors include professionals from all over the world with diverse backgrounds such as serial entrepreneurs, investors, clinical experts, and representatives from larger biotech/pharma and medtech companies.
THE MENTORS

Monica Alfaro Welling is a seasoned biopharma executive with over 30 years of experience working in a variety of strategic and operational executive positions in multi-national biopharma companies, start-ups and boutique consulting firms.

Joan is an internationally experienced life sciences executive with a strong connection to the Nordics. She has held leadership roles in high-growth, innovative companies including Novo Nordisk and several early-stage biotechnology companies across Europe and US.

Kush is a serial entrepreneur in medtech, life sciences and cleantech and has been the founder of Spermosens, Diagonal Bio, Prolevi Bio, Avsalt and Thyrolytics. Today he runs his own venture building firm Nested Bio, serves as a board member for listed and private companies, and supports SMEs in the region.

Jonathan P. Gertler, MD has more than 35 years of clinical and scientific experience, and extensive advisory work with biotechnology, medical device, diagnostic, and health care IT companies in both the private and public sectors.

Inger is a senior executive with a global perspective and strategic mindset, with extensive experience from the Life Sciences/MedTech industry. She has a proven track record within marketing & sales, and as CEO in privately owned middle-sized companies as well as board director.

Roger is a board certified oncologists with a doctorate in experimental oncology from the Karolinska Institute. Senior management positions in Scandinavian biotech companies in early and late development as well as leading medical roles and advisor to global biopharma companies. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at Isofol, and also board director and member of scientific advisory boards to startup companies.

Martin has more than 20 years of international experience and currently lives in the USA. During that time, he has been the BU leader in companies such as Bristol Myers Squibb (now ConvaTec), Becton Dickinson (BD) & ICU Medical. Martin is originally from Denmark and holds a M.Sc. (Econ.) from Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

Martin is co-founder of MedTrace Pharma A/S and led the company to its phase III trial initiation in 2022 as CEO. Martin has been in life science throughout his career and posted twice (USA and Germany). Focus is commercial and business development within device, diagnostics and pharma.

Hervør has experience with early-stage life science start-ups, company creation and business development. She has a background of 20+ years from biotech business and global pharma with knowledge in therapeutic area strategy, drug discovery, boards and fundraising.

Niels Erik is a co-founder of Innoventa Medica, Reapplix, Vivostat and other medical device companies. He has invented several medical devices that have been CE marked and FDA approved, and has been responsible for several clinical trials. He has more than 25 years of experience in the Medtech field.

Sylvie is a senior advisor and consultant with extensive network and experience in life science and innovation. She has held several global positions in strategic marketing and business development and she has also worked on the interface between academia, public-private partnerships, and industry collaborations.

Shori is a health care entrepreneur with expertise within strategy and investment within Med tech and welfare technologies. She formerly built Avesina Health Care, a private care provider in Sweden. The company was operating within primary and specialist care along with diagnostics and elderly care.

Will has been involved in the start-up scene for more than 20 years,as an investor, entrepreneur, and everything in between. His interest lies in areas related to digital health, education, and environment – anything that can have a dramatic impact on human wellbeing.

Kati has a long history in R&D and business roles in the global pharmaceutical industry with a good understanding of current business strategies and models, their potential shortcomings as well as opportunities arising with new technologies.

Hans Peter BøhnChairman at PCI Biotech
Hans Peter is a serial entrepreneur, who has experience as a financial analyst and from the pharmaceutical industry. He is now an independent advisor and chairman of BoD of PCI Biotech.

Eva has 25+ years experience from the life science industry within R&D, product development, supply chain management/manufacturing, in-sourcing/out-sourcing, and sustainability. 10 years as CEO of APL and mgmt. positions at AstraZeneca.

Ulla is a serial entrepreneur, Founder/Co-founder of 3 companies with 25 years of experience in biotech. She has solid experience from listing 3 companies on the Danish and Swedish stock markets and was a key player in 2 product approvals by FDA and EMA.

Anders is an experienced leader in the pharma industry, with an educational background as MD, Ph.D., and eMBA. He has led organizations within Commercial Innovation, including Digital Health, Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, Regulatory, Quality, and Safety.

Christian has experience from both startup and established companies in engineering, operations, and technology management roles. He has managed clinical testing programs of medical devices in the fields of hearing testing, EEG, and EMG, and is the inventor of several patents.

Giles is experienced in early-stage company formation, seed investment, and business development. He has established multiple companies and partnerships in the drug discovery space, and been involved in major partnering deals with the pharma industry.

Arne has 30+ years of experience within the life science industry. He is leading Ankor Consultants Ltd, where he is serving clients in e.g. commercial development, market entry strategies and M&A activities, mainly in the health care and life science industry.

Dean is a global business executive with 25+ years of experience. He has assisted companies of all sizes to find and execute on new growth opportunities across a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications in numerous disease areas.
Named the NOME Mentor of the Year 2021.

Duncan is a recognized R&D leader with a strong business-focused vision who successfully lead international product innovation and development teams towards the development of over 75 commercialized pharmaceuticals, agricultural, and specialty chemical products.

Peter has been part of the biotech and pharma environment for 20+ years and is a co-founder of multiple companies. As a researcher, a patent attorney, an executive manager, a strategic business developer, and a founder, he bridges science, business, IP, academia, and industry.

Trained in emergency medicine and medical informatics, Dr. Halamka has been developing and implementing health care information strategy and policy for 25+ years. He holds a M.D. from the University of California and a M.S. in Medical Informatics from Harvard University and MIT.

Lone is a biotech executive with a love for novel therapeutics and exciting science. She has 20+ years R&D leadership experience from several global pharma and currently focus on biotech business and therapeutic area strategy, financing, drug discovery to clinical PoC, day-to-day project and people management.

Juuso is an innovative and strategically minded cardiologist (MD, Ph.D.), with extensive experience in medicine and business. CEO and Medical Officer at Precordior, a mobile application-based technology to improve the detection of heart disease.

Christian worked as a veterinary physician/surgeon and assistant professor before moving to pharma and biotech where he has spent the last 20+ years in R&D, Corporate and Executive roles. Christian has co-founded several companies and is the co-inventor on 20+ patents and patent applications.

Marianne works at Innovation Skåne as Director of HealthTech Nordic. Before Innovation Skåne, Marianne worked for 15 years in international business development at Tetra Pak and Alfa Laval, as well as nine years as entrepreneur and management consultant in various industries.

Anders has broad experience in the health care and biotech industry, covering C-level positions, strategy and business development, research collaborations, licensing deals, M&As, and IPOs. He has extensive experience with establishing and developing early-stage biotech companies, as well as fundraising and private placements as an investor.

Experienced corporate VP with a comprehensive track record of leading change and delivering impact. Profound understanding of the pharmaceutical value chain through leadership positions across Commercial, Operations, Product development and Compliance functions. Background in management consulting and a Master of Science within Chemistry.

Kalle ÖhmanCEO at Avohoidon Tutkimussäätiö Sr
18 years of entrepreneurial and investment experience in the healthcare and biotechnology industries, and board member/observer in 10 disruptive health/biotech growth companies.

Christian is a professional and experienced science and technology advisor, business leader, and entrepreneur. He has a long track record of starting, developing, and transforming life science and tech companies both in a startup and corporate environment.

Pekka Kahri is the Technology Officer at Helsinki University Hospital (HUS), the biggest public healthcare provider and academic medical centre in Finland. He is passionate about digital health innovations and collaboration between public healthcare providers, companies and academia.

Liselotte has 25+ years of experience in pharma with deep knowledge and understanding of drug development and medtech. Key experience from first in man trials trough clinical development including global regulatory negotiations and understanding of market access needs and drivers for commercial success. Board and advisor role experience.